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One of the old Ragnar Benson books from the Paladin Press talks about making your own primers with either potassium perchlorate or chlorate.  The chlorate mixture is basically mix and use same day.   Very unstable and gets super sensitive by forming acid from moisture in the air.

The perchlorate mixture is as dangerous as making any other primary explosive that is intentionally shock sensitive in your kitchen.  

Chlorates are alot easier to make through electrolysis, as I understand it.  Perchlorate, I think you need palladium strips or something.

I wouldn't recommend do either.    Shock sensitive stuff scares me and I like having all my fingers.

"It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."
John Drury Clark, Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants

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Thought of making some using matches for my 45.

Maybe 3-5 only. Proof of concept.

If you do 1 at a time, double eye (goggles and face shield) 1 primer going off is harder in the ears than the hands.

I think people get intro trouble by trying to save time and consolidate the priming compound into lots of 10 or more.

It’s tedious to only prep 1 at a time but:

safety > time

in this case.


I have enough primers to shoot my normal levels for a few years.

If I’m having to make primers to shoot at some point, I’ll pick up fishing or something else until things return to normal, if ever.

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What if someone has a lot of LPP, and no longer reloads for pistols.
Is there a way to harvest the primer compound from the lpp’s and reapply it into srp’s?
No I wouldn’t do it, but the shortage did make it cross my mind in a total SHTF scenario.
I was thinking some sort of solvent. Hell not even sure if it’s legal. Just in theory

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It's locked for everyone right now...  I can't see it either.

ETA:  I knew I downloaded the book, but couldn't remember what book it was.  I just found it and then googled to find the downloadable copy again.  Here it is.

Ammunition Making by George Frost